The "I Told You So" Thread

[Jaap]

Predictions

- United will win the Premier League
- We will, again, miss out on the FA Cup
- Rooney top scorer in the league
- Kagawa to have an amazing first season at the club

- Liverpool will finish inside the 'Top Four'
- Hazard will not enjoy a fine first season at Chelsea
- City to finish 3rd, one below Chelsea and a place above Liverpool

 

[Antisocial]

Quite a few not-entirely-serious-but-some-actually-quite-serious predictions for 2012-13:

• The Glazers' IPO will struggle/fail. MUST will declare this proof that the Glazers have to leave; GCHQ and the like will explain how this is all part of their strategy
• Kawaga will have an outstanding first season
• Smalling will displace Rio by the end of the season as first choice
• Vidic will be immense yet again
• If we sign Baines, then he will consistently be first choice over Evra, who will then leave for very little at the end of the season
• Giggs will pass 940 appearances, and the aim to reach 1,000 will play a part in him renewing for yet another year
• Scholes will close in on Sir Bobby's total, but will retire again at the end of the season regardless
• Nani's contract talks will continue into the season, allowing the media to torture us with "Exclusives" every other weekend
• Ashley Young will be seriously fouled in the opposition box at a crucial time, but the referee will wave it away/book him for diving
• We will draw Premier League sides for as long as we're in the FA cup
• If we reach the Champions League final, then so will Barca. You know the rest...
• Every big/substantial loss will be followed by claims of our midfield not being strong enough. Top Reds will counter that we're fine there but just unlucky with injuries, and have great youth like Petrucci and Tunnicliffe coming through
• Petrucci and Tunnicliffe will leave at the end of the season
• David Gill will refer to our massive transfer war-chest during season ticket renewal time

And some random thoughts on others:

• City will win the league several points clear of second place, which will likely be us as Roberto di Matteo will hold back Roman's new toys
• If City play Real Madrid or the like, City will knock them out to the delight of the media who will praise City's remarkable and heroic turn-around the last few seasons
• Hazard will have a good but not great season
• Torres will re-find some form being first choice for Chelsea, but will then miss a lot of the season with injury
• Chelsea will be top spenders in the January window
• If he's still in the league, RvP will miss half of it with injuries
• Aguero top scorer; will push for Real Madrid move in the summer
• Balotelli will act like a cnut
• Arsenal finish above Spurs, because they always do
• Liverpool will have a better league season, but still finish 6th or lower
• Newcastle will not do as well as last season
• Another sugar daddy will have entered the Premier League for the 2013/14 season (Nottingham Forest maybe?) - the FA/Premier League will continue to do nothing

 

[Orton]

City will win the league again
Kagawa will assist more than 10 times
Hernandez will struggle to get games
Welbeck will score 12 goals in the league
Nani will be our player of the season
We will start with both Giggs and Scholes against Liverpool

 

[Carl]

Jones will play more games in central midfield than central defence.

 

[INF-AMOS]

Tevez will declare his hatred for Manchester in the January after saying he was settled the previous July.

 

[Sky1981]

The next manager after Ferguson will last no longer than 18 months.

Bump.

 

[pacifictheme]

There are some great shouts on the first page.

 

[DrRodo]

Welbeck, Campbell and Gibson will not make the grade. They'll slowly fade into lower-PL football, like Richardson, Eagles and the like.

If we're not talking exclusively about United - Liverpool will not win the league within 5 years. I made the same prediction about five years ago and I was laughed at.

Can Welbeck be considered faded into obscurity? This one looks nailed on

 

[RedPed]

This is a great bump!

I liked the one about United struggling to find a replacement for VdS!

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Mourinho WILL manage Manchester United.

Torres will leave Liverpool by Summer 2010.

Villa will reach the champion's league quarter final next year.

Yes

Almost

.........

 

[ValenciasDrilledCrosses]

gary neville to score a bicycle kick in the 93rd minute of the champions league final vs liverpool, then promptly gets sent off for getting completely naked and rugby tackling benitez

Liverpool in the Champion's league final

 

[Stobzilla]

I knew I should have posted something in this thread about Jesse.

 

[Zlatattack]

Welbeck, Campbell and Gibson will not make the grade. They'll slowly fade into lower-PL football, like Richardson, Eagles and the like.

If we're not talking exclusively about United - Liverpool will not win the league within 5 years. I made the same prediction about five years ago and I was laughed at.

Mourinho WILL manage Manchester United.

Torres will leave Liverpool by Summer 2010.

Villa will reach the champion's league quarter final next year.

Arsenal will finish 5th

Adebayor will leave Arsenal in the summer

Fabregas will ask to leave in the summer, not get his wish but will be gone by Summer 2010

Real Madrid will sign Kaka in the summer

I'd be more worried about replacing SAF than VDS to be honest.

Ronaldo to reach his peak by 26 and decline thereafter

Rooney to have already peaked, but still have one great season before a noticable decline. - also to be played in midfield once 29

Wellbeck o play for Ingurlund

The next manager after Ferguson will last no longer than 18 months.

Defoe will be looking to leave Tottenham or complaining about lack of playing time within the next 18 months

Newcastle fans to still be campaigning for Shearer as manager 3 years after he's died

Some really good predictions.

 

[Charles Miller]

Wow...MOAB - mother of all bumps.
Prediction: Man United will win the Champions League in 2019.

 

[Rajma]

Smalling and Jones will be our future first team defensive partnership at the back.

You got this one right, for all the wrong reasons unfortunately.

 

[edcunited1878]

Pochettino will leave Spurs by 2020.
Harry Kane will leave Spurs by 2021.
Klopp will be sacked by 2020.
Man Utd will win a Champions League Final before Man City for the fourth time

 

[Lawman]

I said Herrera would not be a regular this season and Matic was miles better as a 6.
Blind was never a Jose centre back.
Ok I said get rid of Lingard but I’ll take a rain check on that at the moment but I’m not holding my breath.

 

[Cheesy]

You got this one right, for all the wrong reasons unfortunately.

Yeah, I'm often wary of being too over-confident with youth but did think they'd do very well.

On the other points - not too bad. Mourinho eventually came in, Anderson was shite and eventually sold, although was wrong on the Nani front. Got our title win and City's mixed up too...

 

[Sylar]

Holy wow. I totally forgot I even made that prediction
Some fantastic shouts though going through the first few pages.

We need to do one now that will get bumped in 2027 haha

 

[shamans]

Marcus Rashford wont make it Man United. He'll be sold to some team like Everton/West Ham in England or across Europe. Slowly establish himself as a favorite for that team and be a pretty good striker by the time he is 26 or 27 at which point big clubs will be interested in him again.

David Moyes will reestablish himself as a top class manager.

Rooney and Giggs will be very good managers, Giggs especially.

Januzaj will be La Liga/Premier league player of the year one day.

 

[Anustart89]

To illustrate how old this thread is

Citeh fans will burn United shirts the steets of Manchester in protest that MCFC HONOURS LIST is the final straw when typed into the GOOGLE search engine.

Google being referred to as "the Google search engine". Nine years later and Google has become one of the biggest companies in the world and a verb that refers to searching for something on the Internet.

 

[haram]

Mourinho WILL manage Manchester United.

Villa will reach the champion's league quarter final next year.

Interesting.

Jose will win us the CL.

 

[BootsyCollins]

Wayne Rooney to leave United at around 31 after loosing his first team place. He will go back to Everton and be welcomed as a hero.

no chance he will be welcomed as a hero

Nice

 

[12OunceEpilogue]

Yes

Almost

.........

Was that David Villa?

Chelsea will win the league next season with a new boss.

United won't win it under Jose.

Ireland will win it but Krum will catch the snitch.

Newcastle will get relegated this season or next and hire Garry Monk.

 

[Hojoon]

Yeah, I'm often wary of being too over-confident with youth but did think they'd do very well.

On the other points - not too bad. Mourinho eventually came in, Anderson was shite and eventually sold, although was wrong on the Nani front. Got our title win and City's mixed up too...

To be fair Smalling and Jones were two highly rated CBs at the time. There are endless number of players who don't reach fans' expectations for whatever reason.

 

[Mockney]

Wayne Rooney to leave United at around 31 after loosing his first team place. He will go back to Everton and be welcomed as a hero.

Nice

This confirmation of my prophetic insight and general brilliance would be a whole lot better if it wasn't sharing a page with this...

Ronaldo to reach his peak by 26 and decline thereafter

Though that does technically ring true for Fat Ronaldo (26 in 2002) so it's entirely possible I really meant him. The visions aren't always accurate you see. They often come to me through an abstract dimensional void, in the form of scents and riddles. Sometimes even several years after the fact.

 

[reelworld]

This confirmation of my prophetic insight and general brilliance would be a whole lot better if it wasn't sharing a page with this...



Though that does technically ring true for Fat Ronaldo (26 in 2002) so it's entirely possible I really meant him. The visions aren't always accurate you see. They often come to me through an abstract dimensional void, in the form of scents and riddles. Sometimes even several years after the fact.

start a religion, may get a few quid while you're at it

 

[Moby]

Sometimes even several years after the fact.

 

[StonedhamsterZA]

This confirmation of my prophetic insight and general brilliance would be a whole lot better if it wasn't sharing a page with this...



Though that does technically ring true for Fat Ronaldo (26 in 2002) so it's entirely possible I really meant him. The visions aren't always accurate you see. They often come to me through an abstract dimensional void, in the form of scents and riddles. Sometimes even several years after the fact.

Mockstradamus

 

[Member 90678]

Martial will be sold in the next 3 years.
Pogba will leave us by 27.
Ddg will be sold within the next 2 years.
We will win the league next year
Next year will still be Liverpool year la!

 

[Member 5225]

Kane will join Man United
Martial will leave United by 2021
DDG will leave for RMadrid by 2019
Jose will stay at United for another 3+ seasons (i.e. 2021+)
United to win CL again by 2020
City to utterly disintegrate post Pep leaving
Wenger to leave for a national team job after WC 2018
Next Balon D'or winner post Messi / Ronaldo to be a midfielder
CR7 will join PSG
Neymar will play for RMadrid
Pochetino to manage RMadrid
Liverpool will be consistent top4 finishers
The TV bubble will burst pre-2023

 

[minoo-utd]

Jose will win us the treble.

 

[Schneckerl]

England will win one of the next 3 WCs

 

[robinamicrowave]

This is a great bump!

I liked the one about United struggling to find a replacement for VdS!

That one about Anderson scoring more than Modric made me feel a bit old, and I'm only 23.

 

[Smudge]

Rooney will win the World Cup as England manager

 

[a_devil_inside]

Michael Carrick will one day become our manager or assistant, even if it's just a caretaker role.
Martial to be sold within the next 4 years.
Rashford will retire before 30.
Man United and Man City will win the Champions League in the next 10 years, Liverpool will win the League within 5.
Harry Kane won't outscore Shearer for most Premier League goals.
David Beckham will become a Sir.

 

[Josep Dowling]

Neymar will sign for Real Madrid with Ronaldo moving the other way.

 

[Carl]

Pogba, De Gea, Martial and Lukaku will all move on within 3 years.

 

[Carl]

United will be the club Jose spends his longest time at, lasting somewhere around 6 years.

 

[Carl]

Kane will never leave Spurs.